The city is prepared to settle a lawsuit for about $200,000 after a woman had an accident riding her bike over a storm grate.

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

For the second time in four years, Metro's failure to replace stormwater grates deemed unsafe for cyclists is likely to cost the city as it prepares to settle claims from a woman seriously injured in a wreck.

Spurred by the lawsuits, Metro officials say they're finally on the way toward systematically replacing these older grates. That process, however, could take at least five years to carry out downtown and longer in some of the city's suburban areas.

In July 2009, Margaret Yoste was leading a group of cyclists from White Bridge Road to Shelby Bottoms in East Nashville. En route, she made a ...